Jesse Green’s Best Theater | Unforgettable ExperiencesJESSE GREENYear of the DramedyIf 2023 was a tragedy in the world, on New York stages it was a dramedy year, highlighted not only by serious plays with great jokes, but also by flat-out comedies with dark underpinnings.
Its residents included an unemployed man in his 50s, his barely-holding-on mother, a pregnant woman, two refugees — and us.
Seated adjacent to the facility’s dingy common room, we became, in the playwright’s own staging, fellow residents.
But if the others eyed us like we might steal a precious sandwich, we could blithely leave when the play was over.
The New York Theater Workshop audience, too, learned a great deal, as the questions bedeviling so many relationships — the complexity of consent and the meaning of control — played out before us in this perfectly timed hot-button play.
Persons:
Jesse Green’s, Alexander Zeldin, ”, Henrik Ibsen, Jessica Chastain, Nora, Jamie Lloyd’s, Amy Herzog, Chastain, Liliana Padilla, —, gorgeously, Rachel Chavkin, Steph Paul
Organizations:
Armory, Zeldin, bros, New York
Locations:
New York, York City, Norway, New York City